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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Wrong in Europe coming to WRONG HERE...another cautionary tale

I was sent this from a friend in Europe yesterday; It's probably the longest speech/post I've ever had the privilege of posting and many won't read it because of its length. I know Always On Watch will as she's a big fan of Geert Wilders. It'll be a mistake if you don't read this. In a kind of congruence with my post on the problems in Germany, two posts down, please check this out. I think it's terribly important for Americans, not just Europeans, too. By the way, this is much more than 'only' about the European Union, trust me. (if you don't have time to read the whole thing, please read my red highlight of more memorable, important phrases and my blue highlighting of my own comments..) Thanks, Z

The EU Stands for Everything That is Wrong in Europe”

Below is the text of the speech given by Geert Wilders in Los Angeles today.

The Resurgence of National Pride and the Future of EuropeSpeech by Geert WildersLos Angeles, June 9, 2013
Dear friends, thank you for inviting me to Los Angeles. I always like
coming to the United States. There are many things that I admire
Americans for. One of them is that they are unashamedly patriotic.
The American Freedom Association has asked me to speak to you about the future of Europe.
Europe is in a terrible state. Bit by bit, European countries are
losing their national sovereignty. The economy is in shambles. Islamic
immigrants riot and terrorize the many locals. And when people’s throats
are slit in the streets, while the murderers shout “Allahu Akbar,” the
authorities appease the killers and declare that Islam has nothing to do
with it.Europeans feel that the gap between them and those who rule them is
growing.Many no longer feel represented by their politicians. There is a
complete disconnect between the people that truly rule Europe and the
people that live in it.
The blame lies to a large extent with the European Union and the weak
leadership within the European countries which have signed away their
national sovereignty. The EU cannot be compared to the United States.
Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own
identities, traditions and languages.(Z: um..more and more like the USA today, huh?) The EU is a supranational
organization, but its leaders aim to turn it into a state. To this end
they are destroying the wealth, identity and freedoms of the existing
nation-states of Europe.
Before I elaborate, let us take a closer look at the terrible mistake that Europe made.Following the Second World War, Europe’s leaders mistakenly thought that patriotism was the cause of the war.All over Europe, not just in Germany, but everywhere, they equated the defense of national identity with extremism.
Politicians told the electorate that the nation state was dangerous.
On the rooftops of Europe’s parliaments and official buildings, they
flew the EU flag next to the national flag, as if the nation is nothing
but a province of a Pan-European empire.
On the number plates of European cars, they put the EU flag instead
of the national flag, thereby forcing people to drive around with the
symbol of their subjection.
They signed away their national interests for the goal of so-called Europeanization.Such policies could never have been possible if the ruling elite had
not fallen for the ideology of cultural and moral relativism.
Patriotism, which is a virtue, came to be seen as a vice. (Z: sure he's not talking about US?)
Today, the citizens of Europe are reaping the bitter harvest of this
arrogance, this refusal to stand by the ancient nations of Europe, the
mothers of modern democracy, the guardians of our liberty.

The EU stands for everything that is wrong in Europe.

It is a gigantic undemocratic transnational monster.

It issues legislation permeated with cultural relativism.

It meddles in the everyday lives of millions of people.

It has opened Europe’s borders to uncontrolled mass immigration, mostly from Islamic countries.

And it has deprived Europe’s parliaments of a huge amount of their legislative powers.

The European Union has brought one-size-fits-none policies that
have resulted in economic disaster. It has led to growing tensions
between the nations of Europe. It has led to the loss of democracy and
liberty. Because the premise on which it was built, was false.
Robert Schuman, one of the EU’s founding fathers, said that the EU’s
aim was — I quote — “to make war not only unthinkable but materially
impossible.” — end of quote. But the idea that Germany, France, Britain
and other nations in the past went to war because they were sovereign
nations is simply ridiculous.
As I tell my audience whenever and wherever I speak in Germany, it
was not German patriotism that started the Second World War; it was
Hitler’s vicious totalitarian ideology of Nazism. (Z: so well said)
It was not German patriotism that caused the holocaust. German
patriots, such as Count Stauffenberg, fought Hitler. “Let the world see
that not all Germans are like Hitler; that not all Germans are Nazis,”
he wrote in his diary the evening before Hitler’s hounds executed him.Likewise, it was not Russian patriotism that sent people to the
Gulag; it was the Soviets’ vicious totalitarian ideology of Communism.
Russian patriots, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, stood up against the
Soviets.
Nevertheless, the proponents of the EU keep pretending that without
the EU, the Germans, the French, the British, the Dutch and the other
nations of Europe would go to war again. The European Union has even
been given the Nobel Peace Prize for the achievement of preserving peace
in Europe — an achievement that is according to me NATO’s rather than
the EU’s.
My friends, no-one knows this better than American patriots such as
you: True patriots are always democrats.(Z: small 'd') Because true patriots love
their people and their country. You do not want your nation to be
invaded by other countries. But neither do you want a totalitarian
ideology, such as Communism or Nazism or Islam, to rob you of your own
identity and enslave you.Patriots want their country to be free. But people only care about
the freedom of their country if they love it first. That is why one of
my heroes Ronald Reagan said in his Farewell Address that we have to
teach our children what our country is, what it stands for, what it
represents in the long history of the world. Reagan said that Americans
need — I quote — “a love of country and an appreciation of its
institutions.” — end of quote.
Patriotism is not a totalitarian ideology aiming for world control;
it is love of one’s own country and identity — and as such it is the
strongest force against totalitarian ideologies aiming for world
domination.
Love your country, appreciate its national institutions. As long as
you do this, your country will remain the land of the free. But if you
fail to do so, you will lose your freedoms. That is the lesson that we,
Europeans, have learned the hard way after the past six decades of
experimenting with EU transnationalism.
And the worst thing, my friends, the worst thing is that we could and should have known better.
In her last book, Statecraft, Margaret Thatcher wrote — I
quote: “That such an unnecessary and irrational project as building a
European superstate was ever embarked on will seem in future years to be
perhaps the greatest folly of the modern era.” — end of quote.
My friends, let me tell you about the terrible consequences of this folly.The Europeans set out to build a political tower of Babel. (Z: man is he intelligent...terrific analogy)
In 1957, six European nations, including my own, the Netherlands,
signed the Rome Treaty. They committed themselves to the formation of — I
quote from the Treaty’s preamble — “an ever closer union among the
peoples of Europe.” — end of quote.
From the original six, the European Union’s member states expanded to
27 nations today. Nations as diverse as Finland and Portugal, Ireland
and Bulgaria, with their entirely different languages, cultures,
traditions, habits and mentalities, were forced by their political
leaders to adopt the same economic, fiscal, social, security, and
foreign policies.
These policies are drawn up by the enormous, ever expanding
bureaucracy of the so-called European Commission in Brussels. It issues
laws — so-called “directives” — that the member-states are forced to
implement in their national legislation.
As a national legislator in the Netherlands I daily experience how
little we still have to say about our own fate. We are expected to
rubberstamp legislation made behind closed doors in Brussels.
Both the EU Council of Ministers and the European Commission
negotiate in secret and then emerge to announce their agreement and
present it. That is how the system works. And we are not allowed to ask
questions.
Those who dare think differently are labeled enemies of European integration. They are the so-called Europhobes.The former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky calls the EU the EUSSR,
because of its striking similarities to the former Soviet Union. He
compares the European Commission to the former Soviet Politburo and
Brussels to Moscow before the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Two weeks ago, I went to Prague and met with Vaclav Klaus, the former
President of the Czech Republic. President Klaus speaks of Europeanism
as one of the new and dangerous ideologies that have supplanted
Socialism.
During his ten years in office, President Klaus refused to fly the EU
flag over the Czech presidential palace. He points out that the EU is —
I quote — “based on big and patronizing government, extensive
regulating of human behavior and large-scale income redistribution. It
shifts government upwards, which means to the level where there is no
democratic accountability and where the decisions are made by
bureaucrats appointed by politicians, not elected by citizens in free
elections.”(Z: he must know the Democrat party in America pretty darned well) — end of quote. Mr. Klaus.
The EU supranationalism has brought the once prosperous, sovereign
and free nations of Europe economic misery, a loss of national identity,
the demise of freedom and independence.
17 of the 27 EU member states have even been so foolish as to dump
their national currency. By adopting the euro, the common EU currency,
they joined the so-called eurozone.
Strong and solid currencies that were the pride of their nations,
such as the Dutch Guilder and the German Deutschmark, were sacrificed on
the altar of European unification. The then German Chancellor Helmut
Kohl sold this project to his people as — I quote — “a matter of war or
peace.” — end of quote. The euro was presented as — I quote again — “an
angel of peace.”
But what did this angel do to us?All the countries that joined the euro lost the power to adjust their
currency to their own economic needs. They have destroyed their
economies and have doomed their people to rising poverty and
unemployment.They all suffered as a consequence. They all have to share the burden
of other countries, even if the latter are suffering from
self-inflicted policies, corruption or fraud, like in Greece.
Last year, my party, the Dutch Party for Freedom, commissioned a
study by the renowned independent British bureau, Lombard Street
Research, into the cost for the Netherlands of the euro so far.
The study found that, since the Dutch introduced the euro, the growth
of consumption spending no longer matches the growth of GDP, as it did
before we joined the euro and as it still does in all the countries that
kept out of the eurozone. The cost was a huge loss in consumer
spending.
The study showed that continuing to uphold the euro would cost the
Netherlands billions of euros. The Eurozone is a huge transfer zone,
whereby taxpayers in our country are forced to subsidize other
countries. The rising taxes have pushed our country, the Netherlands,
into economic recession. Unemployment has grown to over 8% — the highest
in decades.And the countries that receive our taxes have no chance of recovery.
They have no chance of economic growth within a monetary union where the
currency is too strong for them. Millions of people are losing their
jobs as a consequence. Countries such as Spain are doomed with
unemployment figures reaching almost up to 30% today.EU countries have also lost sovereignty over their own national
budgets. The European Commission — not our national government — decides
how big their deficits and national debts are allowed to be. It imposes
austerity measures. But at the same time it demands ever larger sums to
be transferred to Brussels or to so-called rescue operations for the
euro and to bail out countries, like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain
and Cyprus.
Last month, the EU decided to raise its budget. My country and the
Dutch government opposed this decision, but we were simply overruled. We
have no veto right. Now we are forced to pay even more to Brussels.
While government expenditure cannot be slashed by cutting the sums
demanded by the EU, the Dutch government has raised taxes dramatically.
The impact has been devastating. Higher taxes have resulted in less
government income and have led to a contraction of the economy and a
rise in unemployment.
The same phenomenon can be seen all over Europe. The growth of
expenses and taxes, the inability to create a competitive environment,
the overregulation of the economy, the stifling bureaucratization — all
this is leading straight to economic collapse.But there is worse. EU member-states no longer control their own borders.
Immigration policies are decided by the European Commission and the
cultural relativists who are in charge there. The current European
Commissioner overseeing immigration policy is Cecilia Malmström,
formerly a left-wing kind of hippy politician from Sweden. Third-World
immigration has turned Sweden into a nightmare, with immigrants
frequently rioting in major Swedish cities such as Stockholm and Malmö.Mrs. Malmström is forcing all EU member states to follow the Swedish example.
Last year, I wrote her a letter. “Not one single Dutchman has voted
for you,” I told her. “We do not know who you are. We do not want to
know who you are, but you force your ideas on our people. We are
suffering from your absurd refusal to allow us even the slightest
restriction to our immigration policy. You do not even want to limit the
number of partners that one is allowed to bring into the Netherlands!
We urge you to cease your activities and give us our sovereignty back,” I
wrote.
Needless to say that I am still waiting for an answer from her,
despite the fact that I am an elected politician, accountable to the
voters, while she is not. That is why she can afford not to answer a
parliamentarian.Millions of non-Western immigrants are flooding into Europe,
predominantly people from Islamic countries. The Pew Research Center
estimated the number of Muslims in Western European countries at 18.2
million in 2010. It expects that this number will rise to almost 30
million by 2030. The Netherlands will see its Islamic population grow
from 5.5 to almost 8%, Britain from 5 to 8%, Sweden will even see it
double from 5 to 10%, and France will see a rise from over 7 to over
10%.
A demographic catastrophe is about to happen.During the past three decades, so many people rooted in a culture
entirely different from Europe’s own Judeo-Christian and humanist
tradition have entered Europe that its heritage, its freedoms, its
prosperity, and its culture are in danger.
The signs are there for all to see.
Look at the names people give to their children. Mohammed is today
the most popular name among newborn boys in many French, Belgian and
Dutch cities. Mohammed is even the most popular name among all newborns
in England and Wales.
Look at Europe’s inner cities. Visit Europe and you will see that
they have come to resemble Northern Africa and the Middle East. They
have become areas ruled by Islamic Sharia law. Only last month, a Dutch
newspaper reported that a neighborhood barely two miles from our
parliament building in The Hague is now a Sharia zone.
Islamic areas also border the EU headquarters in Brussels. And less
than 10 miles from Westminster, the mother of all parliaments, a British
soldier’s throat was slit by Islamic murderers.Paris, the capital of France, is surrounded by largely Islamic
suburbs.(Z: I'll vouch for that...and the most crime, BY FAR, is there) And so are other cities. The French authorities have even drawn
up a list of 751 so-called “sensible urban areas,” where it is
dangerous to go, especially for native Frenchmen. These are the lost
territories of the French Republic, even though a staggering 5 million
people, or 8 percent of the total French population, live in them.
Even soldiers are no longer safe in Europe’s streets, as the recent
horrible events in Britain and France have shown. But neither are Jews.
Anti-Semitism has risen, and keeps rising the more Islamic immigration
we get.
Indeed, my friends, after Nazism and Communism, another totalitarian
ideology is threatening Europe: the evil ideology called Islam.In Europe, we are experiencing that the more Islamic a society
becomes — even when the majority of Muslims are moderates — the less
free and tolerant it will be.
Atrocities, similar to the recent bombing in Boston, where Islamic
immigrants massacred innocent onlookers at the marathon, occur in Europe
as well. In my own country a few years ago, Theo van Gogh, a film maker
critical of Islam, was butchered in the streets of Amsterdam. (Z: it happens very frequently in Germany, too)
Today, hundreds of young Islamic inhabitants of our countries have
flocked to Syria to wage jihad there. They will return as experienced
jihadists, trained in urban guerrilla warfare. But while you in America
are still able to do something about it, while you can control and close
your borders, while Congress can vote legislation to protect American
citizens, we in Europe have been robbed of this possibility by the
European Union. (Z: he must think we've still got Reagan for president)
And there is not only the threat of terrorism or violence; there is
also the phenomenon of non-violent jihad. The rise of Islam means the
rise of Islamic sharia law in our judicial systems. In Europe, we have
sharia wills, sharia schools, sharia banks. In Britain, they even have
official sharia courts.Europe is gradually Islamizing. People who criticize Islam, such as
myself, are threatened by Al Qaeda and dragged to court by Islamic and
leftist groups. There is not just me, there is the journalist Lars
Hedegaard, the author Salman Rushdie, the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard,
and many others.We criticize Islam and we will keep on doing so, because it is a
dangerous ideology. It is intolerant, it is violent. And, worst of all,
it cannot be reformed. It cannot because it believes that the Koran is a
book written directly by Allah himself. And it cannot because it calls
on Muslims to follow Muhammad as the role model for their personal life.
There could not be a worse model than this man, who was a warlord, a
terrorist, and a pedophile.While most Muslims are moderate people, those who think that they
have to follow Muhammad’s example are not. That is exactly the reason
why the more Islamic a country becomes, the more unfree and violent it
will be.
Europe needs to be protected against this new totalitarian threat.That is why I say: No more immigrants from the Islamic world! My
party wants to close our borders to immigration from Islamic countries. (Z; "oh, how hateful!" the left will say..when, really, what's the other solution?)
And ever more people support us.
A poll, which we commissioned ten days ago, shows that 77% of the
Dutch do not see Islam as an enrichment for our country, 68% say there
is more than enough Islam in the Netherlands already. A majority of the
voters of all the major parties in my country — even the voters from
leftist parties — agree with these two principles.The poll also showed that 55% of the Dutch want a stop on immigration
from Islamic countries, 63% want no more mosques, 72% see a
relationship between Islam and the recent terror attacks in Boston,
London and Paris, 72% want a constitutional ban on Islamic Sharia law. (Z: So DO something about it!!!)
Ordinary people in Europe want three things.
One — They want their politicians to tackle the problem of
Islamization and mass immigration. They want to control their own
borders.
Two — They want to restore their national sovereignty. They do not
want their countries to become provinces of a pan-European superstate.
Three — They do not want their money to be used to pay for mistakes
made elsewhere. They do not want a transfer union where they have to pay
higher taxes to bail out other countries, whose leaders were either
corrupt or incompetent.
Poll after poll show that ordinary Europeans do not want their
democracy to be subverted. Last April, a pan-European poll showed that a
clear majority of the population in the major EU member states no
longer trust the EU as an institution. Even in Germany the number has
reached almost 60%.This week a Gallup poll showed that for the first time in history in
the Netherlands as many people want to leave the EU as stay in. A few
years ago, this was unthinkable.The strength of Europe is its diversity. Europe is not a nation; it
is a cluster of nations, bound by a common Judeo-Christian and humanist
culture, but with different national identities.
Last January, British Prime Minister David Cameron delivered a speech in which he said that the EU needed to change.
He spoke about “the lack of democratic accountability,” “the
excessive regulation,” and everything that is wrong in the EU. And there
are many things I agree with, but I do not share his belief that the
EU’s nature can be changed. Mr. Cameron believes that the EU can be
transformed into — I quote — “a more flexible, adaptable and open
European Union.” — end of quote. I do not believe this. If an
organization has as its explicit goal that it strives for “an ever
closer union,” it simply cannot start moving in the opposite direction
and relinquish the powers it has already acquired.
We can see how the mechanism works in the way in which the EU deals
with the eurozone crisis. Rather than turning away from the destructive
path that has so far been followed, Brussels is using this crisis to
enforce an even tighter control over the member states.
The European Union simply cannot be democratized because the whole
structure is built on a negation of democracy. As President Klaus
pointed out, there can be no European democracy because there is no
European demos — no European people. There can only be various
European democracies — plural! — in the various European nations. What
the EU does is destroy these various democracies.
And, hence, my party’s position is very clear. We opt for an exit
from the European Union. We want the Netherlands not just out of the
Eurozone, but out of the EU altogether — including the so-called
Schengen area, the group of 26 European countries that have abolished
passport and immigration controls at their common borders. We reserve
the right to reinstall random border controls.
We want to retain our independence. We want home rule! We want to be
the masters in our own house! We want to be the masters over our own
borders. We want to be the masters of our own money. The Party for
Freedom wants the Netherlands to leave the EU and join the European Free
Trade Association EFTA.
But here is the good news, my friends. As I have already indicated, public support for the EU is growing thin by the day.For months now, my party has been the biggest in the polls.
And we are not the only one.In Britain, UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, which wants
to lead Britain out of the EU, has come second in many by-elections and
local and county elections during the past two years. It is polling an
average of a quarter of the votes. And it is growing.In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential
elections. She has now overtaken President François Hollande. She
opposes the EU. And her popularity is growing.In Germany, it is still considered far too politically-incorrect to
reject the EU. Nevertheless a new party, the Alternative for Germany,
wants to take the country out of the eurozone. And its appeal is
growing.In Italy, both the country’s largest party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star
Movement, and the Lega Nord, the largest party in the North, want a
referendum on a return to the Lira, while the Lega Nord has called the
EU a failed project.In Portugal a book advocating quitting the euro has become an instant
bestseller. A proposal that was taboo until recently is now discussed
openly, with the country’s Chief Justice personally coming out in
support of eurozone exit.All over Europe, anti-EU feelings are growing.All over Europe there
are patriot parties that reflect the resurgence of national pride in
their countries, whether it be the Netherlands, Britain, France, Sweden,
Finland, Denmark, Austria, Italy, Flanders, the Czech Republic,
Germany, and the other nations currently trapped in the European Union.As I said, here is the good news.Europe might be on the verge of a fundamental change for the better.
We seem to be on the eve of a major and truly historic event. In Europe,
the time is ripe for a glorious democratic and non-violent revolution
to preserve our national freedoms and restore our sovereignty. (Z: Us, too?)
Exactly one year from now, the 27 member states of the European Union will be holding elections for the European Parliament.
People are finally ready all over Europe to rebel in the ballot box.
They reject the transfer union. They no longer want to pay for corrupt states.
They reject the supranational experiment of the European Union.
They are ready to cast their votes for a restoration of national sovereignty.
They are ready to defend their own cultural identity.
All they need is decent political leadership able to lead their nations out of the EU and towards a better future.
America’s first president George Washington has shown that when
courageous and democratic politicians are available to lead their
country, they can lay the groundwork for a lasting democratic framework
that guarantees freedom and prosperity for centuries to come.
My friends, my party in the Netherlands and several other parties in
other European countries are preparing themselves for next year’s
electoral landslide.
We can feel the heartbeat of the New Patriotism in Europe.
Winter is over.
Spring is coming.
The European Spring is upon us.
And we are getting ready for it.
We are aware of our historic task.That is why I am especially happy to be here in California today.
Because the great inspirer of our upcoming democratic revolution, is one
of yours. Your hero, my hero, Ronald Reagan! — who in his presidential
Farewell Address said that the achievement he was most proud of in his
entire presidency was “the resurgence of national pride.” “The New
Patriotism,” as he called it.
Next year’s European elections offer a unique opportunity to liberate the nations of Europe.
Next Spring’s European elections offer a unique chance to correct the
fatal error made by previous politicians who sold away their taxpayers’
money and their national sovereignty to Brussels and delivered their
countries to the evils of mass immigration and Islamization.
As a European politician, I am fully aware of my duty to grab this
chance. The European elections next May must deal a blow to the parties
that sold us out to the EU. Not just in the Netherlands. But everywhere
in Europe.
That is why I do what is in my power to forge an alliance of
democratic parties standing for the restoration of the sovereignty and
freedom of their nation. I want to bring these parties together in a
common endeavor to defend our identity and our values. I do not know
whether I will succeed, but I am trying. It is my conviction that we
have to work together. Because we are all in the same boat.
My friends, it is easy to despair. Time is running out for Britain,
for France, for Germany, for the Netherlands, for all the other great
nations of Europe. The present situation in Europe is bleak. If we do
nothing, it will become even bleaker. If we do nothing we will be swept
away by economic and demographic disaster.
But it is wrong to despair. The present is bleak, but the future
looks bright. Because the future depends on our actions. We are the
actors on the stage of history. That, too, is a lesson from Ronald
Reagan, who said: “We need to act today, to preserve tomorrow”.I went to Paris recently to talk to Marine Le Pen and see for myself
who she is and what she stands for. She is not her father. She is not
anti-Semitic. She cares about France, its identity and its sovereignty.I went to Prague to talk to President Klaus.
In the coming weeks and months, I will try to see as many patriot
leaders in Europe as possible. And I always ask them for their views on
Israel. Because Israel is the litmus proof.
The Jewish people did exactly the opposite of what the Europeans did
after the Second World War. They drew the right conclusion. They
realized that without a nation-state of their own there could be no
safety for their people.Without a nation-state, without self-governance, without
self-determination there can be no security for a people nor
preservation of its identity. This was the insight that led the Zionists
to strive for the re-establishment of the state of Israel. Theodore
Herzl said that there had to be a Jewish state in order to ensure — I
quote — “a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.” — end of quote.
Indeed, a soul needs a body. The spirit of a people cannot flourish
outside the body of the nation-state. The nation-state is the political
body in which we live. We must preserve and cherish it. So that we can
pass on to our children our national identity, our democracy, our
liberty.
My friends, what we need today is Zionism for the nations of Europe.
The Europeans need to follow the example of the Jewish people and
re-establish their nation-state.
And that, my dear friends, is why every patriot, apart from being a
democrat, by definition also has to be a true friend of Israel. A
patriot cannot be anti-Semitic.
My friends, the great Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky said about the
Jewish people: “We do not have to apologize for anything. We are a
people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better
than the rest. We do not have to account to anybody. We are what we are,
we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to.” —
end of quote.
And so it is. For all the peoples. We do not have to apologize for
being good to ourselves. We do not have to change if we do not want to
change.
The peoples of Europe resent the permanent alienation of power from
their nation-states. They care about their nations because they care
about democracy and freedom and the wellbeing of their children. They
see their democratic rights and their ancient liberties symbolized in
their national flags. They are proud of their flag. And as long as their
pride lasts, they will have a future.
Let us emphasize this commitment to the resurgence of our national
pride with a symbolic gesture. Let us do so by endorsing the Jewish
nation-state and move the embassies of our countries from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. Let us fly the flags of all the free and proud nations of the
world over embassies in Jerusalem, the only true capital of Israel and
the cradle of our Judeo-Christian civilization.
Israel deserves our support. Not only because it is the frontline
against the totalitarian threat of Islam, but also because it shows how
important it is for a people to have its own homeland.
My friends,Today, a new threat is confronting us. But history shows that we can withstand it if we stand together. We need an alliance, not only of patriots in Europe, but also an alliance between America and Europe. We need the help and support of American patriots such as you. Such
an alliance brings out the best in us, and allows us to beat the
totalitarian menace.
This was proven by the alliance between Roosevelt and Churchill in the 1940s.
It defeated Nazism.
It was proven by the alliance between Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s.
It defeated Communism.
Today, Islam is a threat to all of us, to Israel, to Europe, to America. But together we can withstand it.
And we have to stand together or we will be defeated. We have no other choice.
As the great Margaret Thatcher said:
“Defeat — I do not recognize the meaning of the word.”
And neither should we!
Thank you.

The EU gives more power to a central elite and central bankers, who don't give a rat's ass about the people. All they want is power and money. That's why they won't fight things like radical islam. At the end of the day what matters to them is how much money is in the bank. To appease the people they will keep sending welfare checks and print money. Till it violently explodes. National Front is seriously on the rise in France and is more acceptable now.

That's the result of the international socialist utopians. Fascist movements started on the left ("Les Ligues") and the left because of its idiocy will reignite ugly nationalistic sentiments.

Differentiating between nationalism and patriotism is vital. Blind jingoistic nationalism is usually upheld as being definitively practiced by the National Socialists, the Nazis, and Adolph Hitler. Thinking "Deutshland uber alles" and pointing with pride to the achievements of the state and, of course, the embodiment of the state, the leader, Hitler, would be the distinguishing characteristics.

I think America at its founding had it right, the individual rights of the citizens were deemed to be sacrosanct, the power of the state limited constitutionally. We've traveled a long way from that original ideal today, baby. So far in fact one would be hard pressed not to mistake the country for one of the statist variety. In an environment of statism I believe you'll more likely find blind jingoism verging on outright nationalism, where the state and the race can be manipulated. Creating imaginary enemies works wonders in moving a country to that end result.

Waylon you're right. Nationalism is collectivist in nature. Internationalism is no different at the end. Instead of an allegiance to a country, it is just an allegiance to an ideology that doesn't respect the individual since it forces him to conform to new cultural and ideological references, instead of letting him choose those references.

That's the beauty of America. Nobody was forced to move here and most of the time, people who do really want to willingly adopt the way of life.

FrogBurger, I've noticed about 5 different fruit vendors at the side of the road just in my area here...all Hispanics, absolutely no reason to think they're legal, selling pineapples and mangos and other fruit under umbrellas like stands....as if they're in Tijuana.I usually see them only on a side street but today I saw some on Santa Monica Blvd, which surprised me because they probably don't have permits and they're more visible on SM Blvd. I wonder if the police are too PC to even ask.Here it is, upper middle class West L.A. and it's like a Tijuana market street.There's a charm to it, but not here. Not illegally, not changing the ambiance of the neighborhood.It's so sad.

BY THE WAY, FB: What's your opinion of the National Front now that the daughter's in charge? I was living in Paris during the last Chirac election and more and more people were favoring Le Penn even then. Many French friends were rather surprised but totally understood why.

Marine Le Pen is a lot more accepted than her father. She's much better at communicating. I don't know what she thinks about the holocaust and things like this. What I know is that she's basically a nationalist with socialist policies for the economy. So not great but they are the only ones to be more socially conservative in France and the more open about being sick of radical islam and immigration for welfare. So they're definitely up in the polls.

Radical, it seems so weird that, one year ago, the town people decided a woman born to slavery should have a monument dedicated to her because she was an ancestor of Michelle Obama's..really weird.I guess it's because of her slavery...it's nice to think a slave's great-great-great granddaughter became First Lady, but............how odd.I actually think it's sad it got knocked over.If it had to go up at all.

FrogBurger: LePenn's father put aside what seemed like anti-Semitic rhetoric years ago, too..publicly. I don't think she's ever been called anti-Semitic.She's also a socialist, or at least one with socialist plans for France? Maybe that's the only way they can win anymore.I guess that's not very far from us these days, sadly.

I'm surprised anybody who's more socially conservative is gaining in the polls there.

She's also a socialist, or at least one with socialist plans for France?

She's for big gov and is not opposed to the welfare state. But she wants the welfare state for the French, and not the immigrants. She has to pitch that b/c most of the National Front's electorate come from blue collar people who stopped voting for the Communist Party. That is why the French Communist Party doesn't have a voice in French politics like it used to have with Mitterrand.

It shows once again that there's a very fine line between far right and far left.

FB: MAN! Of all countries to teach GENDER NEUTRALITY.How SICK...and in FRANCE!

...ou la vie est dur et les femmes cout cheres! !!I used to be mad at Mr. Z when he said that to me; until we were at a pet store window one afternoon and the little boy puppies were one price and the little girl puppies were double that price :-)

Not trying to compete with you, Z. I happen to be in the Geert Wilders Fan Club, too. (And, yes, I read every word of what you posted by him.) It was he, who got me into this thing called 'blogging.' I read one of his articles and that became my first post.

Z,Where to start. I always think within the parameters of history (occupational hazard). First of all, I felt the pain in Wilders's words. This is a man who has watched his country become balkanized.

To watch his once proud country become part and parcel of a ruling oligarchy that in no way cares about the individual countries within its sphere. They care about some utopian vision that if we all just love each other it will all be good.

Please remember that the Dutch have a proud history. They were the greatest trading nation in the world during the age of imperialism when they and the British were the main players. Remember too, that New York was known before 1664 as New Netherlands and New York City was known as New Amsterdam. Now the lefties will remind me that the Dutch traded prodigiously in slaves. But as all western countries have done, they ended the slavery. Islamic nations? Well they have some work to do.

After Britain claimed and renamed New York the Dutch still had enough power to be a country that John Adams solicited for a loan during the revolution.

A couple of summers ago I read "The Rise and Fall of Roman Empire." It was written in 1776. The major lesson I took away from the book was covered by Wilders. As a country looses its soul and balkanizes it looses its sovereignty and no longer resembles what it once was. The book sobered me about the future of our country and sadly it seems to be going according to plan.

Maybe Wilders will wake some people up but as long as Obama and his minions are in power we will continue to decline. What a blueprint Wilders has provided for us. The leftists have ruined Europe and their eye is on us.

I'm so glad you posted this. A worthy read, especially in combo with your stepson’s comments.

Currently, as I'm finishing "The Creature from Jekyll Island", I’m pondering the leveling (and malevolent) influence of the Federal Reserve and World Bank in overtaking our national sovereignty and transferring our wealth to others.

When Geert says they have "a unique chance to correct the fatal error made by previous politicians who sold away their taxpayers’ money and their national sovereignty" I cannot help but think of his opposition: the juggernaut of powerful financial forces who benefit from the concentration of power and control of the money. They are not going to be levered off their thrones by a mere vote of the people!

Worse, it will take a lot more to get Islam out of Europe this time around than it did 400 years ago in Spain. They, at least, had the first and basic ingredient: the will.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away fromextinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must befought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day wewill spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children whatit was once like in the United States where men werefree." -- Ronald Reagan

remember

Andrew Breitbart...American Hero

Mac 'n GeeeZis my food blog...enjoy! Sorry I haven't added to it in a long while.

President Obama has done such a horrible job with the economy and foreign policy that now Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States :-)

important reminders:

We are surrounded by IDIOTS...Mr. Z

“Barack Obama's political genius is his ability to say things that will sound good to people who have not followed the issues in any detail —regardless of how obviously fraudulent what he says may be to those who have. Shameless effrontery can be a huge political asset, especially if uninformed voters outnumber those who are informed.” Thomas Sowell.........AMENTolerance is the last virtue of a dying society. (doesn't matter who wrote it, it's true and it's here)

The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.... Peter Brimelow

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